The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, in meal form, as is the third. There are further named meat ingredients 7th and 8th on the ingredient list, but these are too far down to make any significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food. Two meat meal ingredients within the top five is generally a good sign that the product contains a reasonable amount of meat. It is unlikely to beyond acceptable level though, as there are still 3 grain products amongst the major ingredients.

The main grains are rice, corn, and sorghum. Rice and sorghum are decent quality grains, but corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food products. It is also commonly associated with food allergies. Further down the ingredient list, rice flour (in dog food, commonly a byproduct of human food production) is a grain fragment we consider primarily filler.

Beet pulp is a controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. We would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product in the food.

The product contains a good range of probiotics. We note the inclusion of synthetic vitamin K, a substance alleged by some to be linked to liver problems and which is progressively being removed from better quality products.